# Kyle Shank > An attempt to put thoughts into words. ## Blog Posts - [Vendors will kill your business](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyleshank/kyleshank.com/refs/heads/main/_posts/2026-08-03-vendors-will-kill-your-business.md): I really think everyone needs to consider this at all times. - [Hypervals](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyleshank/kyleshank.com/refs/heads/main/_posts/2026-06-17-hypervals.md): I lose track of time. I tend to go into a very deep focus while working. I spend amounts of time I never intended on low priority items. I get d... - [Anatype 1.6 released](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyleshank/kyleshank.com/refs/heads/main/_posts/2026-04-30-anatype-1.6.md): Anatype 1.6 has been released. Bug fixes and improvements to text editor. Try fullscreen writing that blocks the internet now! - [Anatype 1.5 released](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyleshank/kyleshank.com/refs/heads/main/_posts/2026-04-02-anatype-1.5.md): Anatype 1.5 has been released. Fixed another minor issue. Try it out! - [Persai](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyleshank/kyleshank.com/refs/heads/main/_posts/2026-03-16-persai.md): My first startup was originally called “Persai” (Personal AI). I had a dream of persistent search with learning models. In May 2007, we moved to S... - [Anatype 1.4 released](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyleshank/kyleshank.com/refs/heads/main/_posts/2026-02-07-anatype-1.4.md): Anatype 1.4 has been released. I fixed an issue with scrolling and upgraded the text view component. - [Writing with timers in Anatype](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyleshank/kyleshank.com/refs/heads/main/_posts/2026-01-31-anatype-timers.md): Anatype now has a very simple timer feature to pace your writing. You can easily start a 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 or 60 minute timer from the menu or wit... - [Markdown support for Anatype](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyleshank/kyleshank.com/refs/heads/main/_posts/2025-12-23-markdown-anatype.md): I have added Markdown support in Anatype 1.2 now released to the Mac App Store. - [Anatype Tour](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyleshank/kyleshank.com/refs/heads/main/_posts/2025-12-08-anatype-tour.md): I made a short video tour of Anatype. - [Anatype](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyleshank/kyleshank.com/refs/heads/main/_posts/2025-12-03-anatype.md): I want to write more so I decided to make an app to improve my writing instead. This helped push off actually having to write anything until my ap... - [LastCrash](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyleshank/kyleshank.com/refs/heads/main/_posts/2024-06-11-lastcrash.md): LastCrash is a crash video replay SDK for iOS and Android apps. See exactly what happened in the moments that led to a crash. - [2024](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyleshank/kyleshank.com/refs/heads/main/_posts/2024-01-01-2024.md): Happy New Year! - [Applying LLMs to private data](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyleshank/kyleshank.com/refs/heads/main/_posts/2023-10-13-applying-llms-to-private-data.md): Over the past year I have been focused on how to apply LLMs to private data. At first I thought training on top of an existing LLM would make sens... - [New startups can’t acquire cloud resources](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyleshank/kyleshank.com/refs/heads/main/_posts/2023-10-11-new-startups-cant-acquire-cloud-resources.md): This is more of a public service announcement than a post but its worth stating: new cloud accounts at AWS, Google and beyond have severe service q... - [B2B AI will require self hosted LLMs](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyleshank/kyleshank.com/refs/heads/main/_posts/2023-10-10-b2b-ai.md): Business to business AI solutions that handle sensitive or large amounts of business customer data will have to host their own LLM infrastructure f... - [AWS Bedrock](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyleshank/kyleshank.com/refs/heads/main/_posts/2023-10-09-aws-bedrock.md): AWS has just launched a new service called Bedrock for running foundation and custom generative AI models. At first glance this looks like an extr... - [vLLM](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyleshank/kyleshank.com/refs/heads/main/_posts/2023-10-05-vllm.md): Large language models are slow and require scarce expensive resources. The inference process is bottlenecked by available GPU memory. The entire ... - [Open Source LLMs](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyleshank/kyleshank.com/refs/heads/main/_posts/2023-10-03-open-source-llms.md): I am currently working on an AI project and have been paying very close attention to the developments in open source LLMs since March of this year ... - [Hello World](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyleshank/kyleshank.com/refs/heads/main/_posts/2023-10-02-hello-world.md): Take cartridge out. Slap the Nintendo several times. Blow into the cartridge. Place cartridge back into the Nintendo. ## Key Pages - [About Me](https://kyleshank.com/about/): Professional background and contact info.